Wallace Stevens Quotes
There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
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Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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I started out doing musicals.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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Slavery has as many shapes among us as there are things we need.
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I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.
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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
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I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
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President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
